In Van Etten’s new album, life’s mess is powerful and holding it all in your arms is a creative act.
It is inconceivable that anyone unfamiliar with the work could have the slightest idea what is going on.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does.
The collapse of HMV looks like a nail in the coffin for a music industry long declared “dead”. But music sales are higher than in the glory days of Britpop.
As a talented improvising guitarist Miller stood out in an unusual scene, but he was even more distinguished as a composer.
No matter how Bad the opinions of its author: a banger is a banger.
From endless Arthur Miller to the National’s sell-out Cate Blanchett vehicle, the forthcoming year in theatre.
Wham! released the iconic song in 1984. It would be another 14 years before Michael publicly came out as gay.
Their performance showed me that sincerity always beats irony.
Watching Adrian Lester on stage, I realised that there was such a thing as transcendent performance.
It’s one long performance, one long evening shading into brilliant night.
